Although it technically is possible to recycle Plexiglass, it's a complex and inefficient process, so it generally just isn't done. A simple new technique, however, is claimed to break the plastic down into all of its building blocks for near-complete recycling.
Tags: ETH Zurich, Plastics, Recycling, Polymer
New Jersey's Velotric has unleashed the second generation of its fat-tire adventure ebike to "power through challenging landscapes and city streets with equal ease." The Nomad 2 can also take more than 500 pounds along for the ride.
Tags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Off-road
A clinical trial to test the effectiveness of a new, plant-based oral drug to treat type 2 diabetes has produced some promising results. The drug significantly improved blood glucose control and boosted heart and liver health. Larger clinical studies are pending.
Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind
Tags: Type 2 diabetes, blood-glucose, Traditional medicine, clinical trials
The whole mobile world is heading to Barcelona this week for Mobile World Congress 2025, and of the raft of Xiaomi gadgets on display is a magnetic attachment aimed at giving its smartphones a photographic boost.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Xiaomi, smartphones, Cameras, Modular, Lens, Mobile World Congress 2025
For years now, Alphabet's Taara division has been delivering internet connectivity in far-flung areas with traffic-light-sized transmitters that communicate over long distances using beams of light. The team behind it has now reduced that tech down to a chip the size of a fingernail.
Category: Telecommunications, Technology
Tags: Taara, Broadband, Fiber optics, Alphabet
In an era in which tiny houses are becoming increasingly luxurious – and expensive – Dragon Tiny Homes recalls the small living movement's roots with the Genesis. The compact model provides a small and simple towable home for just US$39,500.
Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
VR is incredibly immersive for sight and sound, developers are making headway into touch, and even smell is starting to appear, for better or worse. That just leaves one last sense – and whether or not anyone actually wants to taste virtual worlds, a new device is now tackling that final frontier.
Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Virtual Reality, VR, Taste, Ohio State University, Sensory, Food technology
The world's first "biological computer" that fuses human brain cells with silicon hardware to form fluid neural networks has been commercially launched, ushering in a new age of AI technology. The CL1, from Australian company Cortical Labs, offers a whole new kind of computing intelligence – one that's more dynamic, sustainable and energy efficient than any AI that currently exists – and we will start to see its potential when it's in users' hands in the coming months.
Category: Brain Health, Body & Mind
Tags: neurons, Neuroscience, Brain, Neural Network, Alzheimer's disease, Epilepsy, molecular biology, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
The MWC trade show for mobile tech is upon us, and Lenovo's slapped a solar panel on a laptop to bring to its booth. The Yoga Solar PC can run off the power of the sun, packs decent specs, and appears well built. Too bad it's only a concept at this point.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Laptop, Lenovo, Lenovo Yoga, Solar Power, Outdoors and Camping, MWC 2025
Astrophysicists have done a bit of crime scene investigation on what’s almost a reverse murder mystery. They’ve traced radioactive elements on the seafloor back to the cosmic explosions they might have come from – and potentially linked the event to evolutionary changes in viruses in a lake in Africa.
Tags: Supernova, Astronomy, UC Santa Cruz, UCSC, Radiation, Evolution, Iron
Singapore's project to operate the world's largest automated port is coming along nicely. The Tuas mega port has successfully handled 10 million containers since it kicked off operations in September 2022, and is expected to increase that to a massive 65 million shipping containers per year in the 2040s, when its four-phase development is complete.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Shipping, Cargo, Singapore, Electric, Artificial Intelligence, Automation
California startup Alef Aeronautics has released "the first documented, verifiable flight of a flying car (an actual car, with vertical takeoff, non-tethered)," as CEO Jim Dukhovny wrote in a social media post.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Flying Cars, eVTOL, Aircraft, Personal Flight
With a market flooded with options, it can be daunting finding an electric bike that meets modest demands – like commuting to work or getting out and about on the weekend – that also comes with an equally modest price tag. But this superb number ticks both boxes, and then some.
Tags: ebikes, Bikes, sustainable design, urban transport, Reviews, Pedal-assisted
I'm really rooting for the Stanford University researchers working on this carbon removal method. They've found a way to activate materials commonly found in rocks to capture carbon dioxide out of the air at room temperature. It's not exactly the fastest way to hoover up CO2, but the team believes it could be a relatively inexpensive affair, and can easily scale to help sort our emissions problem worldwide.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Carbon Removal, Direct Air Carbon Capture, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Stanford University, Net Zero
It’s no secret that solid-state batteries have the potential to be the next big thing in the electric vehicle industry, but their mass-market adoption has been dragged down by reliability concerns. That hasn’t stopped carmakers from carrying out more research on the technology, though.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Battery Technology, Solid-state, Electric Vehicles
Using ultrasonic waves and a salt bath, a research team has altered the surface of glass. The brand-new method may lead to glass made without the use of harsh chemicals for self-cleaning windshields, germ-busting surfaces, or maybe even better beer.
Tags: Glass, Curtin University, Biofuel, Filters, Fermentation, Ultrasound
Meta (formerly Facebook) plans to build the world's longest undersea cable that will be longer than the Earth is round. The high-capacity, fiber-optic cable that will link five continents will span a fantastic 31,000 miles (50,000 km) – for reference, the circumference of the Earth is 24,901 miles (40,075 km).
Category: Telecommunications, Technology
A decade-spanning study has revealed a troubling side effect when pregnant women take a common painkiller during their pregnancies. The effect of the over-the-counter drug was significantly stronger in female offspring than males.
Category: Body & Mind
Tags: Pregnancy, University of Washington, ADHD, Acetaminophen, Tylenol, Painkillers
Chinese auto marque Chery has created a visionary concept van meant to navigate out of the city and chase adventure with family and friends. The compact-but-expandable vessel combines the latest in automated driving tech with next-gen camper features like a slide-out glass pod and deployable frunk kitchen. It's what Chery calls "Travel 4.0."
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Concept Vehicle, Concept Cars, Campervan, Chery, RV, Van, Minivan
Located on the Red Sea, Port of Neom has undergone a significant transformation since it began operations in August of 2022. Situated within Oxagon, a sustainable, futuristic, high-tech industrial port city as part of Saudi Arabia's Neom mega-trillion-plus-dollar region, the port will act as a central hub for not only shipping and receiving for the region but also as an advanced global manufacturing and information technology hub.
Category: Technology
Tags: Neom, Marine Innovations, shipping containers, Eco-Friendly, sustainable design
